Question juridique clé
Whether the 1997/98 assessment had res judicata effect preventing later classification of the property as business assets and taxation of a liquidation gain.
Solution extraite
No. In periodic taxation, finality attaches only to the tax assessment for the period, not to the legal characterization of individual items for later periods.
Motifs extraits
The reasons for a prior assessment are only motives; they do not generally become materially final. Therefore the earlier 1997/98 assessment did not bind the authority for later tax consequences.